23 December, 2013

2013 in review: an out-and-out skite

My four Aurealises, and myHorror-Awards-bestowing gloves

I've been meaning to compile a list of all the Sea Hearts/ Rollrock achievements, and the end of the year provides a neat excuse, as well as the time, of course *waves cheerily to the day job*.So here we go. Some of this is from last year, but I wanted all the glory in one place, so forgive me if it gets repetitive. Also, if anyone spots anything I've missed (but I'm not trying to list all online reviews of everything—the holidays aren't that long) please give me a nudge in the comments. By the time I got this much listed I was a bit dizzy:

Sea Hearts/The Brides of Rollrock Island's Big Year:

Reviews:

the Guardian

The Times

Sydney Morning Herald

NZ Listener

Locus

School Library Journal

Starred reviews:

Booklist

Kirkus Reviews

Publishers Weekly

The Horn Book

The Bulletin of the Centre for Children's Books

Lists:

Publishers Weekly Best Books 2012

Horn Book Fanfare

Locus Recommended Reading

2013 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults

Longlistings:

Carnegie Medal

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (actually a longlisting—shortlist to be announced April 2014)

My fourth short story collection Yellowcake came out in the US and the UK in May, and it did pretty well for itself too, being reviewed in the Guardian, in the School Library Journal, on Bookslut and on Strange Horizons, and getting starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, and a listing in the Scotsman's Christmas round-up by Keith Gray.

Shorts

And I had four short stories published:

"Angels of Abstinence" in Purgatorio: Australia Today, a chapbook anthology put out for the Melbourne Writers Festival, edited by Ellen Koshland

"Black Swan Event", in Griffith REVIEW's "Once Upon a Time in Oz" issue

"We Three Kids"—This novelette will be available online during the 12 days of Christmas 2013, and a print chapbook will be published at the end of January 2014.

And Danel Olson's anthology Exotic Gothic 4, from PS Publishing (as Postscript issues #28/29), which led off with my story "Blooding the Bride" won a World Fantasy Award.

So I can't complain about not getting any attention this year.

In 2014 I have, as far as I know, only one, leetle (2500-word) short story coming out, details of which I'll pass on when I get them. I'm hoping to get a novel finished and submitted pretty early in the year, leaving most of the year free to work on, possibly, its sequel, or another couple of projects I've got cooking. It has to be a better novel-writing year than 2013 was.

2 Comments:

Bea De Koster said...

Hello,impressive list, and maybe you could add a renewed interest from Belgium. Jen De Groeve, the editor of the magazine for juvenile literature De Leeswelp, asked your publisher for the rights to translate Singing my sister down. She wants it for the special issue about Australia. Kerry Mallan is writing an article about the subject. I translated The Best Thing and Touching Earth Lightly for the Flemish publishing house Houtekiet in 1998 and 1999, so she asked me to translate your short story. But, since I happen to go to Australia in july, she asked me if it was possible to do an interview about your work and your position in Australian literature. So if you can help Jen De Groeve to get the rights of translation into Dutch for Singing my sister down, and/or if you would be prepared to grant an interview, please contact me!beadekoster@hotmail.com

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I write fiction. My latest novel is Zeroes, the first book of the Zeroes trilogy (YA fantasy), a collaboration with Scott Westerfeld and Deborah Biancotti. My novel Sea Hearts is published as The Brides of Rollrock Island in the UK and the US. I've also written Tender Morsels and five short story collections: White Time, Black Juice, Red Spikes, Yellowcake and Cracklescape.